Jim Rutherford

Even just a point a game will be enough as this team grows and becomes a better team.

It'll be enough for this team to be successful.

But he's got to get to that and he's got to work at it.

I'm not.

Obviously, the new GM will make some changes.

I would suspect there will be at least three new first-year guys in.

We count Lacamecchi as a first-year guy, Kutz, and whoever we pick at the top of the first round.

We hope that that player is ready to play.

I would think that if the GM would add a couple of veteran players, hopefully good character and mentors like the guys we still have here,

And if you blend those in together, you get healthy, Demko's back to where he was, then this team should take a big step forward.

I don't want to stand here and say it jumps all the way into the playoffs, but I do believe we have a very exciting team and a team that people are going to have fun watching and watch grow.

I've known for some time that Quinn was not staying in Vancouver.

And I've known before this season started for that matter.

It's one of the reasons why we signed the guys, the Garlands, the Bessers, the Demkos that had relationships with him, hoping for a little bit of a chance right down to the end that he would decide to stay here.

But I don't think that was ever in the cards.

Some people think Quinn left here because the team wasn't any good.

He was leaving anyways, okay?

And the best example I can give you is Matthew Kachuk.

He was in Calgary.

They had a good team.